texlive-latex-extra should depend on texlive-fonts-extra

[Dario Bertini]

This is not the same thing as bug 1225697 but it's closely related.

That bug is supposedly fixed in Debian, but (unless the Ubuntu packages differ in a significant way) I doubt it.

The situation now is arguably worse, for the people that (like me) weren't using particular features/fonts/styles in their documents, since with the latest version of Ubuntu, it now suddenly fails to compile.

This is because packages like moderncv (which comes from texlive-latex-extra) requires fontawesome (which come from texlive-fonts-extra), but apt is not aware of this dependency.

(The best solution would be to have a more granular system rather than huge texlive packages... I guess something like the new Nix Texlive system: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive-new/default.nix#L1 )

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: texlive-latex-extra 2015.20150810-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-22.27-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jan 4 14:10:40 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-22 (43 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: texlive-extra
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

> (The best solution would be to have a more granular system rather than
> huge texlive packages... I guess something like the new Nix Texlive
> system:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex
> /texlive-new/default.nix#L1 )

Which, btw, seems not to deal properly with maps, formats, engines,
all these niceties ..

The script in your link simply unpacks the texlive tlnet package.
But there are a set of post actions defined in the tlpobj that need
to be taken.

Norbert

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